I voted no because I don’t have a issue with this as I use my squads to make up a BR2, BR3, and BR5 profile
even if you use distinct squads across every br, (which is hard to believe) ,
some weapons are limited supply , like i only have two swords , i don’t want only my br5 preset squads to use those swords , i want all my brs to use them . anyway , your counter argument is not very convincing. and there is literally no downside to having this qol improvement.
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I don’t see how this could work except for a “equip best of BR” for the whole squad (also I specifically have squads designated for BR2, BR3, and BR5, not BR4 or BR1 as you implied)
Squad BRs are decided because of their weapons. It’s always been this way.
Certain vehicles might over-ride that, but it’s how it works.
I’m not sure what you’re actually asking here.
The devs gave us filters for our squad and BR selection. And we’ve had selection presets for a long time now…
What else are you asking for?
Ok maybe i confused things by mentioning BRs , forget about BR for a second.
right now i can preset squads , and preset weapons for each soldier ,
im asking for a preset for squads AND weapons . like i build an army of x number of squads , i give them all weapons of choice . I save this preset .
now every time i load this preset , this exact squads appear together with the exact weapons i gave them when i saved the preset. does that make sense ?
How exactly would that look like? And how exactly would it work for more than one squad?
It’s been suggested continuously since the merge (so… for years). Apparently it isn’t going to happen so most of us who cared have simply stopped asking (and/or playing).
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bruh , here is chatgpt example for those , hope this clears it up :
I have one Assault Squad that I like using a lot. I want to be able to quickly switch that squad between two different weapon setups without touching every soldier.
Preset 1: “Sword Assault Army”
- Squad 1: Assault Squad
- Soldier 1: Event Sword + Pistol
- Soldier 2: Event Sword + Pistol
- Soldier 3: SMG
- Soldier 4: SMG
- Squad 2: Rifleman Squad (bolt-actions)
- Squad 3: Premium APC
Preset 2: “SMG Assault Army”
- Squad 1: Same Assault Squad
- Soldier 1: SMG + Pistol
- Soldier 2: SMG + Pistol
- Soldier 3: SMG
- Soldier 4: SMG
- Squad 2: Rifleman Squad (same or different, doesn’t matter)
- Squad 3: Premium APC
What happens when I switch:
- I’m currently on “Sword Assault Army”.
- I click “SMG Assault Army”.
- The same Assault Squad stays in my lineup, but Soldier 1 and Soldier 2 instantly lose the swords and get the SMGs instead. The other squads update as well.
Why this is better than what we have now:
Right now, to go from the sword setup to the SMG setup on that same Assault Squad, I have to open Soldier 1, change his weapon, open Soldier 2, change his weapon, etc. If I have several event or limited weapons I like rotating, this gets slow and annoying.
With a Squad + Weapons preset I just click the other preset and the whole configuration (squads + exact weapons on each soldier) loads at once.
The swords are limited, so only one preset can have them equipped at a time — the game would just unequip them from the previous preset when I load the new one, the same way it already does when you manually move a limited weapon between soldiers.
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All I know is I really wish Enlisted presets worked like War Thunder.
You set them up once and then you just click whichever one you want and it goes to that and youre ready to go.
Simples as the meerkat from Compare the Market says.
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Here is my old lazy man take on this, since I didn’t read every comment. If I have 12 total slots (which I do), and I absolutely love 10 of my infantry squads and I want to use those same 10 squads in every BR levels, it would be nice if you could save all ten of these squad lineups, with their BR level weapons loadouts. So, I can save the same ten squads to every BR level, but they would have different weapons assigned to each BR level and it would be nice if the game remembered. All I would have to do is add the appropriate tank/plane/apc and each BR level is complete. Load the game, choose my BR level and play, without having to change the weapons every time I want to use the same squads in other BR levels. That would be what I want, but is it asking too much of the Dev’s, after all, they can’t make a bot that can stay in a room when ordered?
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People who don’t understand what the suggestion is about either don’t play the game or never change BRs.
Meanwhile, disarming reserves and then coming through every soldier of every squad when changing BR is extremely annoying PLUS some weapons like german trench club are not taken off by that button so you have to take said clubs off manually.
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So this effects multiple squads or just one?
IIRC, Major once replied to my similar suggestion that they will look into it, but nothing since.
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Precisely !
I played the game and swapped BRs, I just am patient and has pre merge squads :3
I probably wouldn’t use the feature if it was added since I like the extra time to think on who to give the weapons in the rare case that I actually move a gun or sword from a person (most of the time I just swap out the soldier like a battery these days)
I was told it’s complicated and the dev’s don’t want to mess with that part of the code. Not sure that’s accurate but is what I was told by someone who could be a trusted source.
complicated my ass. probably a different reason that they don’t want to say.
It may be true. I have long noticed that squads have some peculiar differences depending which campaign they came from (may not apply to post-merge players).
Like, how things behave when you drag a new soldier into a squad or save a preset are NOT the same. This makes me think that different people (or contractors) created completely different code for each. May or may not be the case, but I wouldn’t be surprised.